The government monitors them phone calls your. The Companies retail spot the your buying habits. And it looks strange to you the fact that automakers keep track of where you are driving? What do not you understand?
Perhaps we are not talking about Greece yet, but short chanting. So they say a new one report Six of the 10 U.S. companies that use positioning devices in their products are automakers, including Ford, Chrysler and General Motors.
This organization found that the companies that together with the car provide a track location (location machine) for the purpose of security against theftς του αυτοκινήτου, χρησιμοποιούν τα data location of their customers to update daily traffic, assist with law enforcement work, and generally serve third party and corporate GPS systems.
Such as he says Ad Age website, companies, in some cases, send some of the data to researchers studying traffic plans and other road network phenomena.
Additionally, Ad Age reports that the location data of certain car models can be sold to advertisers businesses οι οποίες στοχεύουν σε συγκεκριμένα δημογραφικά στοιχεία. Επιπλέον, οι information they can be sold to insurance companies that want to assess, say, how safe a driver is.
In general, the report concludes that companies are aware of the protection of their customers' privacy, but often do not make it clear to customers that they are providing personal information or do not even fully explain what they collect, what they mean by "common data use ”etc.
"Without clear disclosures," the report concludes, "there is an increased risk that data may be collected or shared for purposes that the consumer did not expect or did not actually agree to."
